You would be surprise at the number of parents who ask me every year
about religion on campus.
I think that I would respect and maybe even work for a candidate who either said he was a freethinker OR simply refused to talk
about his religion on the basis of it being something very personal.
So, I don't think most people really think
about their religion on a deep level, and that's okay... it gives them comfort.
What is most striking about these works is not that they are
about religion on TV but that the books assume specifically religious forms in their own right.
Newspapers come out with these feel good articles
about religion on a regular basis because it helps sell their advertizing.
In traditional dating, it's mentioned that talking
about religion on the first few dates is a no - no.
Is it possible that they are a christian organization despite mentioning basically nothing
about religion on their sight?
Not exact matches
We also tend to make generalizations
about a person's individual contribution to a project based
on how we feel
about a group the person belongs to: a team, a company, or — even if we don't realize it — their ethnicity,
religion or disability.
President Donald Trump strongly defended his move to impose a travel ban
on seven largely Muslim countries, saying that that while America was «a proud nation» of immigrants, his order was strictly
about national security and not
religion.
«The notion that Christians may exercise their faith
on Sundays but forget
about it when they step into work
on Monday is not real freedom of
religion and is not freedom of conscience,» Scoffield told the court.
The operatives were instructed to target the most hot - button political issues, by talking
about and starting groups centered
on immigration, police misconduct, race, and
religion.
Every time
religion is brought up regardless of what it is
about people start dissing
on God & Jesus and whatever else they beleive to be untrue.
At any rate, you people that are using this as an opportunity to insult whatever
religion annoys / frightens you, and worse than that, engaging in a fight
on this board, should really think
about getting the sticks you have stuck up your rear ends removed.
I'm an atheist, and one of the things I hated
about religion is that the Christians are always trying to force their absurd beliefs off
on other people now there is an organized group of atheists trying to do the same thing with a non-
religion.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan
on Tuesday issued a statement saying the U.S. government «in no way condones such acts of disrespect against the
religion of Islam, and is deeply concerned
about deliberate attempts to offend members of religious or ethnic groups.»
The last people
on earth that will understand anything
about religion, spirituality, God are Americans.
My believe system did not change overnight, it took some time, but one day I realized
religion did not made any sense and since then in my mind I am not concerned
about the afterlife, I concentrate
on what I have to do now and I feel free.
You freaks don't even see the other disease that islam poses that are being fought in the same time frame as it is
on your
religion, but you still whine
about it.
To all of you carrying
on so loudly
about «seperation of chruch and state» — I agree with you — we should vote the person, not the
religion, nor the party.
99.9 % of Religion in this day is like a very bad used car salesmen trying to sell you something to get your money and you drive off thinking you got something nice and you what you are getting is a clunker that will take you just far enough away that the saleman can steal your money because 99.9 % of what all
religions claim
about God is just a bunch of lies
ON God taken out of context.
There is much that could be said
about this, but I will stick with one thing, based
on discussion at
about the 2 minute mark: When atheists insist that atheism does not drive behavior, and then then campaign
on behalf of atheism, ridicule
religion and religious believers in the name of atheism, seek to change laws in favor of their atheistic positions, recommend the extermination of
religion, and practice falsehoods like Dawkins's in support of atheism, they prove that their atheism drives their behavior and that their premise is false, disingenuous, and (as far as I can tell) useless for anything but giving atheism rhetorical cover from being implicated in atheists» atrocities.
I was always told it was impolite to talk
about politics or
religion to strangers... so it seems doubly so to knock
on someone's door and try to do it.
I would reasonably assume I could pray, in silence or out loud,
on a plane and people wouldn't panic and might even understand that I am worried
about our journey and praying that we all arrive safely, no matter what
religion they choose to believe, or if they choose to believe in one at all.
Much of classical music is instrumental, operas are not always
about religion, country music isn't always religious, folk music depends
on the origin which can be secular or of other
religions besides Christian, much of rock and pop music is not religious, and so
on.
aish.com is a very good website for jews that are intrested
on learning more
about their heritage and their beautiful
religion
Jefferson said some critical things
about religion and human nature - that were spot
on... Martin Luther apparently actually hated a group of people to the point that he wanted them gone.
But those that are willing to spend thousands of hard earned dollars
on «what if» insurance, and then stomp their foot and insist that any
religion is a farce and aren't willing to spend a few free hours of their time to just learn a little more are the ones I'm concerned
about.
Whether the critiques provided are correct or wrong, religious TV and media gives us the opportunity to reflect
on our way of life and talk with others
about religion.
They got the slap
on the wrists they deserved as a wake up call to the real world, which is very very skiddish
about people practicing foreign
religions on an airplane in public.
Your beliefs
about god are no more real than your silly contention that gays are intent
on driving
religion out of the US.
The human brain's reflexive thinking
about tribes and taboos blinds us to our stupidity and
religion often capitalizes
on that.
The stories written
about him decades later are inconsistent with each other
on important details, went through an editing process hundreds of years later, and incorporate a number of myths of other
religions popular at the time.
Suggesting that if their kids learn
about Christianity in school they should be equally exposed to information
on other
religions 4.
I love seeing christians talk
about people hating
on religion, as if nothing bad has ever come from it.
He says that he would «convert
on the spot» if any of these could be shown to him: verifiable fulfillment of prophecies that couldn't have been contrived; scientific knowledge in holy books that wasn't available at the time; miraculous occurrences, especially if brought
about through prayer; any direct manifestation of the divine; aliens who believed in exactly the same
religion.
Instead, they find little stupid convoluted reasons to justify their actual views
on the matter that reality - based science is actually a real cure to things we know
about (thanks to the scientific method) when in fact
religion offers nothing but wishful thinking.
For you to hatefully comment
on religious articles
about how much you HATE
religion is a lot like someone complaining of a headache while bashing their forehead with a mallet.
If someone is
on their death bed, let them talk
about what they want to, they've had enough already to have a damned used car (
religion) salesman pushing a deal through just so they get quota for the fricken month!
So you're too stupid to give some examples
on a belief blog that focuses
on religion and people who are religious and that they speak
about god to give me alternatives to different terms?
I listen to how they talk
about matters of faith,
religion, what they watch
on their favorite religious tv programs, often listening as well to their radios playing their favored «Christian music» radio stations in the background, what are in the lyrics.
Obviously they're not true atheist if they would even read an article
about religion, because according to their beliefs, after this life, there is nothing, so why do they feel the need to comment
on something they say doesn't exist?
If you (not * you *) are going to say something controversial in a public, then you should expect someone to call you
on it and / or present another view, espcecially is a place such as this blog,
about religion.
We can assume that all the Justices sitting
on the Court today, like other humans, have their own preferences and biases
about religion, but the judicial opinions of one of them, Justice John Paul Stevens, raise more than a slight suspicion that some of his actions
on the bench stem from animosity, if not to animal sacrifice, at least to certain less exotic religious beliefs and practices.
You nailed it - especially
about the fact that her observations highlight the superfluos nature of
religion and the fact that she just can't take the info at face value but still needs to put a Christian spin
on it.
Unlike some people
on here that can't just enjoy a good story
about the Pope and has to trash a whole
religion.
Brian is essentially correct
about the cause of many wars being based
on religion.
Many Atheists constantly read topics
on religion because that is how rationality works, in order to refute or support an argument you have to be knowledgeable
about as many aspects of the problem as possible.
Start with GW (after all we all know this was
about oil and
religion) Move
on the the «crusades» (nice term, but really just another war, ok 5 wars in the name of
religion).
Like some
on this site have stated, you really need to get a life, take care of your families and stop worrying
about our Presidents
religion.
BTW did you waste all your time just studying the christian myth or can you babble
on about any number of
religions?